Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-22
DAILY HERALD.
DAILY HERALD.
GLADSTONE CITY.
The Cream of the East
San Gabriel Valley.
a CITY CREATED IN A DAY.
Gladstone the Richest settlement
in Natural Advantages
in California.
a CITY CREATED IN A DAY.


know that the new settlement in the
hsact of the Azusa, twenty.six miles by
rail and twenty-three by road east OF
Los Angeles, has been named after the
great British statesman and scholar,
VIM. E. Gladstone.
A trip yesterday over the Los Angeles
and San Gabriel Valley railway by
living excursion train was rare treat.
Four cars were chartered for the occa.
sion and made the trip from Los Angeles
through . paradise of fruits, ambrosial
shades and flowers in forty.ive minutes
to Azusa, where carriages were in wait
ing to take passengers from the end OF
the track to the new town Of Gladstone,
in the eastern portion OF the San Gabriel
valley.
The distance from the end of the
present track to the center of Gladstone
& about two miles, but within the next
six days the track will be completed
from Los Angeles through Gladstone,
when the great transcontinental trains
of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
railway will pass through this settle.
ment.
GLADSTONE TRACT.
The tract called Gladstone comprises
525 acres of the finest land on the globe
with ample waterright and o water pow.
er equivalent to 250 horse power. A
grand avenue, S8 feet wide, bordered with
shade trees and containing two high
ways extends from the Sierra Madre to
tho south side of the tract. In the Gen.
ter of this highway
TEN ELECTRIC MAsTs
are being erected so that the great
0ighway that cuts the land into two
royal domains will be lighted from and
after tonight with the pure light Dor.
rowed from the sun by the per.
mission OF that luminary. Pro-
fessor Warren, the electrician ia
charge of the manufacture of electric
energy in Los Angeles, was in Gladstone
yesterday, and is pushing as fast as pos
sible the preparations to light the new
town tonight or tomorrow night.
Nearly all the land in Gladstone il
covered with b airing vineyards and
orchards, the latter mostly in orange
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richness, being dark sandy loan with
an abundance of vegetable mold.
A lot has been reserved for bank,
the First National Bank of Gladstone.
and ample room for schools and
churches. A newspaper will be started
at an early day. The tract is laid out
along Citrus sveaoe from Centre to Cap
tain Fuller's Hinda Vista Hotel in resi-
deuce ard business lots. Thcn there
will be acre and five and ten acre lots,
all sold alta fixed schedule of prices to-
R5rrow. Where there is preference
for lots buyers may bid for preference,
the premium going to the company
fer public Improvements and not for
the personal advantage of any indi-
vidual. Every acre of Gladstone is of
q highly productive character and raises
all kinds of small grains, citrus and de-
.ciduous fruits. The Atchison, Topeka
and santa Fe Railway passes through
the settlement, and the Southern Pa
oific Company has a line surveyed just
north of the Atchisop, Topeka and Santa
Fe. The depot will probably be built
between the two tracks.
THE HOTEL SITE.
At the head of Citrus avenue on a
beautiful foothill is to be the great
hotel of the future. 1t over.
looks all the San Gabriel val.
ley, and eastward to the high plains of
San Dimas, besides commanding view
of the great plains south of the Mission
hills. Every acre of the land is pro.
ductive, and the present crops of fruits.
vegetables and grain are enormous. No
more productive land can be found on
the American continent. The water
right is abundant-much more than is
needed for this character of soil. The
water power of $50 feet fall will be
utilized for making electric energy for
light, and probably for iunning
an electric railway. The settlement
already has postoffice at Centric, three
hotels, four school-houses, including
primary, middle and upper grades;
three churches, . livery stable, two real
estate Offices, q drug store and black
smith shop.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The supply of water is very large be.
ing about three inches under pressure
for every ten acres, or three times what
is deemed necessary for fruit growing
and four times the supply used in Pasa.
dena. The Gladstone company has united
with the Azusa Land and Water Com
pany in the matter of water distribution
and Col, H. H. Boyce, President of the
Gladstone Company, has been elected a
director in the united organization.
This important movement secures a
copious and abundant sapply from the
great cemented ditch already made, to
which is to be added tunnel into the
moun ;ains to depth of 800 feet beside
the old ditch supply. These sources of
supply are more than are needed for
town or for fruit farming, but might be
used for alfalfa or corn, if the land
were not too valuable as place of resi-
addition to being one of the richest po-
mologioal and agricultural districts in
the State, the Gladstone Company is
rich in
MINERAL WEALTH.
The company owns large granite
4narry, from which stone will be taken
to erect building for the First National
Bank and the new hotel foundation. 1t
also has q new lime and marble quarry,
from which o large amount of wealth
san be derived. A telephone is one of
The conveniences of the settlement, and
. telegraph office and freight and passen-
ger depot will be erected in a. few
lays. The Gladstone station, for
he shipment of granite, lime, mar.
Die, grain, vegetables and fruits, will
soon be one of the largest in the valley.
Straight, beautiful streets are being {
made througout the tract. The north
md south streets are Citrus, Covina,
Gladstone, California, Azusa, Baldridge,
and Los Angeles avenues
The east and west streets are Broadway,
Orange, Walnut. Meridian, Alcsta,
dinda, Fuller, Grace, Glendora and = :
1asd.
OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY: II
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